BondBlocks

Hi Adelaide! I’m coming Thursday April 9 to run a full day PL on Bond Blocks Addition & Subtraction. Would love to see you there. https://drpaulswan.com.au/shop/april-9-2026-live-pl-ticket-adelaide-bond-blocks-core-addition-subtraction-kit-level-2-pl/

Just back from a fantastic two days working with the staff and students from Rangeway Geraldton. Saw some brilliant teaching. Thanks for having me.

https://bondblocks.com/2026-update/ Exciting Updates!!! NEW lesson-by-lesson planners, activity boards with 40+ videos, whole class monitoring tools, Introductory Video PL and more. It's been a very busy Dec/Jan. Thanks to the Swan Team for their Herculean work. Appreciate you. Best wishes for the start of the 2026 school year. Hope these updates help. ☺️

Ideal Saturday night. Recording word question videos. ☺️ Red-tailed Black Cockatoos in front of me and a glass of shiraz. Hubby sitting behind me watching cricket. 12 word-question videos recorded, 24 to go. Will be ready for end of January!

Recently visited Eliza A.'s school and she has set up these fancy trolleys for Bond Blocks in her class. Ikea currently has 40% off similar trolleys if you want to set up one of your own.

I’m so excited! The Swan Team and I are working hard making new Addition & Subtraction Kit lesson-by-lesson planners. There will be two different planners. One for whole class teaching and one for intervention. They are so much clearer than the current ones. They have more consistent timing, images of boards, dot point instructions about when to do ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’, differentiations and reviews specified. More information, less words. Teaching is hard enough. Hope they help 😊 As part of this I’m working my way through updating the website. As always, please email me if I’ve broken a weblink or made a typo! All updates will be free and announced on socials and www.bond.blocks.com They will be ready for January 2026.

Over the next couple of months I will be working my way through all 122 Addition and Subtraction Kit videos to boost the volume. I’ve learnt a lot since first making them! Thanks for bearing with me. YouTube videos can’t be updated so I have to delete the original and upload the new one. This takes me about 30 minutes per video. Please let me know if I break links and videos don’t work! One down, 121 to go 😅

Sneak peak! The Swan Team and I have been working hard making the new Quick Curriculum Guides for WA 2026 curriculum. Similar to what we did for ACv9. Pretty exciting. I've linked them to each of the Bond Block kits. Scroll down on this Counting Kit page https://bondblocks.com/counting-kit/curriculum-links/ and this Addition & Subtraction Kit page https://bondblocks.com/curriculum-links/ .

We are launching the full WA Quick Curriculum Guides... and threads...at the New WA Curriculum PL Get Ready running next week. If you missed this PL don't worry. We are running it again next year Feb 23. Info coming soon. Stay tuned to Swan socials for the full launch (as soon as SCSA releases codes) https://drpaulswan.com.au/resources/planning/ -guides

Counting Kit. New downloads. Monitoring tools in Excel for tier 1/2/3. Record observed achievement using a traffic light system. Hope they help. https://bondblocks.com/counting-kit/counting-kit-monitoring/

Busy start to Term 3. Running early years intervention PL using the Counting Kit in Geraldton, Katanning and Moora. Love the enthusiasm and commitment of early years staff!

Thanks Dad! You are a pro at driving that 9 tonner. You and the Swans made short work of moving the 2000 sets of Bond Blocks that just arrived.